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Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Genres

Documentary

Duration

30 min

Director

Douglas Kiefer

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

December 31, 1977

Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Original title: Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

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Synopsis

This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.